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HILLARY CLINTON What privilege? Court passes on attorney-client confidentiality, and now she has to cough up notes...
...usual dog-bites-man stories. They are signs of a growing epidemic. According to Dr. Jeffrey Sacks, an epidemiologist with the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control and author of a report released three weeks ago on the problem, dog attacks eclipse measles, mumps and whooping cough combined as a health threat to children. The number of dog bites that caused people to seek medical care increased from 585,000 in 1986 to 800,000 in 1994, a 37% jump during a period in which the dog population rose less than 2%, to 55.8 million...
...emphasize they have reached all their money targets so far this year and expect to raise at least $50 million in 1997. But the party is $14.4 million in debt and must repay $1.5 million more in contributions now judged improper. It is awkward to ask legitimate donors to cough up cash that will end up reimbursing illegitimate ones...
Tobacco execs no doubt expected some piling on. And I'm all for Philip Morris and its peers paying through the nose if they are to negotiate away their legal woes. But there are limits to how much they can cough up. A payment so large that it cripples the business defeats the purpose of their settling, although that point seems to be getting lost. Besides, no tobacco chief is going to cut his shareholders' throats. Just how much can the industry afford? Tobacco execs have been mum on the subject. It was the antitobacco side that floated $300 billion...
...Coughing kids. The incidence of children with WHOOPING COUGH--a serious, sometimes fatal disease that's preventable with a vaccination--has shot up 83% so far this year, compared with the same period...